Abstract: A combination cap and dispensing spout assembly for a carbonated beverage bottle. It is designed to stay on the beverage bottle until it is empty. It is pressed onto the original sealing cap of the carbonated beverage bottle and it is detachably snapped over the annular shoulder on the neck of the bottle. When it is desired to dispense some of the beverage, the bottle is turned upside down and the combination cap and dispensing spout assembly is rotated about 1/4-3/4 of a turn which allows the carbonated beverage to pour out of the tubular spout of the combination cap and dispensing spout assembly. The carbonated gas that has escaped from the liquid beverage cannot readily escape from the carbonated beverage bottle but instead rises into the space above the liquid beverage in the bottles upside down position.
Abstract: An L.E.D. light assembly for traffic arrowboards having an upright oriented lens having a front surface and a rear surface. A plurality of vertical flutes are formed on said rear surface and a plurality of horizontal flutes are formed on said front surface. Each of these flutes have a left edge and a right edge and when the lens is viewed from the front or rear, the respective viewable intersecting left and right edges of the vertical flutes and horizontal flutes define a grid of four-sided light magnifier modules. This grid has a central core portion of light magnifier modules and a surrounding portion of light magnifier modules. Light from the L.E.D.'s positioned behind the central core portion of light magnifier modules produces a spotlight type of beam along the longitudinal axis of the light assembly. The surrounding portion of light magnifier modules produce a divergent light pattern that is greater in the horizontal plane than in the vertical plane.
Abstract: A magnetooptic device to be used in industrial applications to investigate articles for flaws or defects. The magnetooptic device is capable of revealing defects in articles of nonmagnetic and magnetic conducting material. These results are achieved by designing a magnetooptic device having a magnetooptic transformer element on its bottom surface and incorporating a front electrical contact and a rear electrical contact on the bottom surface of the MO device. The respective electrical contacts are connected by wire conductors to the respective positive and negative terminals of a source of electrical current. The defect pattern of an article can be either visually viewed or the defect pattern can be recorded on a tape or magnetic rubber sheet placed between the bottom surface of the MO device and the top surface of the article being analyzed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 5, 1994
Date of Patent:
May 19, 1998
Inventors:
Aram Tanielian, George D. Carlsen, II, Alexey L. Solodov, Andrey Ya Chervonenkis, Vladimir L. Gribkov, Nikolay N. Kiryuhin
Abstract: A safety system for a wood chipper having an elongated delivery chute into which a person would load tree branches, limbs and tree trunks. A metal sensor is mounted in the chute intermediate its front and rear ends and is oriented to detect any metal passing through the passageway of the chute. A gate is mounted inside the chute and it is normally in an open position. The gate is located at a position between the metal sensor and the rear of the chute. When the metal sensor detects metal passing by it sends a signal to a hydraulic cylinder that rapidly closes the gate to block the passage way of the chute. The system requires that the person loading the material into the chute wear a pair of metal impregnated gloves. Some wood chippers have rollers mounted adjacent the rear end of the chute for pulling the tree branches, limbs and tree trunks into the inlet port of the housing containing rotating cutting blades.
Abstract: A stress relief apparatus having a square wave generator that is powered by a 9 volt d.c. battery. It has two separate closed circuits for transmitting an electrical square wave from the square wave generator. Each of these circuits have a light emitting diode that radiates a light in the 400-800 nanometer range. The structure for supporting the respective LED's would be a predetermined length of flex tubing having sufficient rigidity so that it can be bent to direct the light at preselected acupuncture points on either the triple warmer, small intestine or large intestine meridians. A first human body ground member is electrically connected to the square wave generator and a second human body ground member is connected to a ground. In one embodiment the human body ground members are a pair of metal cylinders one of which is gripped in each hand of the user.
Abstract: An elongated panel configured in the shape of a visor has its respective left and right rear edges pivotally secured to the respective left and right ends of a band-shaped support member whose rear surface has a concave curvature to mate with the front of a person's forehead. The vertical orientation of the visor can be adjusted with respect to the band-shaped support member. An elongated strap is secured to the rear surface of the band-shaped support member and it has a plurality of loops secured to its rear surface. A bandanna is threaded through the respective loops and tied at the rear of the wearer's head. A display panel is formed below the visor adjacent its front end and it may have a mirror, a pager, a clock and a battery mounted therein. An audio speaker ear piece may be pivotally mounted adjacent either the left or right edge of the visor. An audio microphone may be pivotally mounted adjacent one of the edges of the visor.
Abstract: A cutting tool designed for hand cutting/harvesting of grapes and trimming shrubs and flowers. It has two elongated members pivotally secured together at a locus axis passing perpendicularly through their respective head portions. The surfaces of the respective head portions that mate against each other have annular grooves that removably receive a coiled spring between them. The coiled spring functions to keep the cutting edges of the tool separated when there isn't any hand pressure squeezing the respective hand portions toward each other to perform a cutting operation. A brass washer under the head of the bolt holding the respective head portions together assures smooth pivotal movement of the head portions when the respective hand portions are squeezed toward each other.
Abstract: A lightweight wake board binding having a thin bottom support plate. A heel receptacle and a top-of-the-foot retainer strap are secured to the top surface of the bottom support plate by a left and a right side plate stiffener member that substantially eliminates the flex in the bottom support plate produced by the person riding the wake board. The plate stiffeners have upstanding flanges adjacent their inner edges having elongated slots therein that receive a fastening strap for tightly securing the binding to the wearer's foot.
Abstract: Variable duration hydraulic lifters having either the conventional flat bottom surface or a roller mounted in their bottom end for engagement with a cam. The unique plungers have an upper portion and a lower portion whose outer cylindrical surfaces have grooves extending from their top edges to their bottom. The width of these grooves at their top end is less than their width at their bottom edges. Also these grooves may have a depth at their top edges that increases as it approaches their bottom edges. The benefits resulting from the unique grooves in the outer surface of the plunger includes reduced emissions, increased gas mileage, and an increase in the engines horsepower and torque.
Abstract: A re-bar alignment and support clip for re-bar members that need to extend vertically upwardly from a concrete foundation. The re-bar alignment support clip is detachably secured on the horizontal 2.times.4 whose bottom surface is generally flush with the top surface of the concrete foundation. The re-bar alignment and support clip has a pair of vertically spaced spring arm portions each having an intermediate curved recess that passes around the re-bar and keeps it vertically oriented.
Abstract: A pants rack assembly to be mounted on the wall of a room. It has a block shaped body member having a front surface from which extends an elongated right side gripping arm, an elongated left side gripping arm and an elongated middle spring support arm. This structure is integrally formed of plastic material. An elongated floating gripping arm is positioned between the middle spring support arm and each of the respective left and right side gripping arms. A pair of coiled springs pass through longitudinally spaced apertures in the middle spring support arm and their opposite ends are seated in recesses in the respective floating gripping arms. The rear end of the block shaped member is telescopically received in a U-shaped channel member that would be secured to the wall.
Abstract: Seepage of water and other impurities into hermetically sealed on plastic encapsulated modules leads to eventual device failure, as conductor material corrodes and opens, or electromigrates to establish conductive trails across a substrate, shorting the conductors. To forewarn of such failure, a sensing device defined as a separate chip is packaged in the same module with the circuit to be checked, with pinouts that can be tested with a circuit that is usually external. The sensor makes use of the moisture-induced migratory behavior that causes the problem, using a highly migratory metal or alloy to define paired electrodes spaced as closely as 2 micrometers apart. The metal of the electrodes undergoes rapid ionization and migration in the presence of trace amounts of moisture, dissolved ionic contaminants, and a small potential difference across the electrodes.
Abstract: A footbox for medical patient's that is placed at the foot of their bed. It has a horizontal base having a rear wall extending up from its rear end. Two pairs of laterally spaced walls form a left foot receptacle and a right foot receptacle and they extend from the rear wall. The three walls forming each of the respective foot receptacles have foam pads lining their inner surfaces to provide cushioning for the patient's feet. A cushioned pad extends across the width of the base in front of the respective left and right foot receptacles and is of such a height that the patient's heel will not contact the top surface of the base inside the respective foot receptacle.